Mostly in the last couple of years I have moved to the Netherlands and started working as an actual proper engineer, which is great, but the Netherlands tends to defeat the time-establishing shots. The pop songs on the radio are either from the 80s (so much Phil Collins) or sound like it, while the rows of wind turbines are years old already. Last week the new passenger tunnel opened in Rotterdam station, and the express-type supermarket in it has the first self-service tills I've ever seen here; Dutch people are mostly still eyeing them warily and then queueing for the normal tills, while I just go ahead and use them and try and work out when they started appearing in the UK. 2006, maybe? Before or after I moved to London? A good few years ago, anyway.